convoy
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Shortly afterwards, an AFP reporter saw a silver car with Najib inside leaving the Kajang Prison compound, followed by a convoy of vehicles.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Residents had a four-hour window to leave before a convoy of 25 buses, with space for 750 people, left the town on Friday afternoon - along with ambulances for people with limited mobility.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Less than 24 hours after losing the presidential election, he appeared to vanish into a convoy of four dark cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
But some had since been evacuated, including the 14 Israelis airlifted out on Monday while another five had left the day before via an NGO convoy, despite advice not to travel by road.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Rasseem, Smithy, Mara, and the rest of the convoy marched behind us with all the pack animals.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Besides often keeping a low profile and maintaining an unremarkable wardrobe, Dangote sometimes drives himself, without the long security convoys associated with many Nigerian elites.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Generally speaking, however, tanker convoys, escorted by air and sea by the U.S. military, do the perilous transit through the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Often using artificial intelligence, they have targeted fuel trucks and military convoys on roads that link Russia to the Crimean Peninsula and to bases along the front line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
He suggested Ukraine's main objective was not only to strike the assets "important to Russia's image of grand power", but to disrupt key logistical convoys, command posts, and communication towers.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The two convoys were going in opposite directions, and Bors was alone.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were conveyed and convoyed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
We convoyed over in shifts, along with other companies from their individual base camps around Mosul.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2018
We were 142 people that convoyed together, at minimum one mission a day/night.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 1, 2015
Next afternoon Venezuelan forces cleared the route to the airport of all traffic, and a bulletproof limousine convoyed by six truckloads of armed troops swung through the city with Nixon safely inside.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On November 17, 1926, when White was still settling into the new job, two new inmates were convoyed up the prison’s horseshoe driveway by U.S. marshals.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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“If something didn’t send an alarm signal that we needed to have serious assets or protection and convoying of our vessels in that area then I want to know why not.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2019
By the time I reached San Clemente, there were four of us convoying at about 20 mph on the 5 to Oceanside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
Dr Labrosse said the main application would be for convoying, where a series of automated vehicles are led by a human driver or a smarter robot at the front.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2015
After 15 years of private-eying, he finds himself back on the Continent convoying a fugitive millionaire industrialist from Brittany to Liechtenstein.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Why she was convoying British vessels, Portugal not being at war with America, does not appear to have been explained.
From Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham
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